JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE

Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Tuesday, March 23 at 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) to hear Dr. Kelly Lepo update us with the latest on the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA's next flagship space observatory, which will launch in October 2021. In this presentation, Dr. Lepo will discuss the science and challenges of infrared astronomy, as well as the big questions that the Webb telescope will help to answer: What were the first galaxies like? How do galaxies change over time? How do stars and planets form in those galaxies? What are the atmospheres of planets around other stars made of? She will also discuss what to expect in the 6-months after launch, as controllers carefully unfold and prepare the telescope to take its first science images. You will also learn how you can host your own event celebrating the Webb launch, deployment or first images. NSN Webinar Series Page: Current & Upcoming Event Schedule: https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=707 Night Sky Network https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/ Astronomical Society of the Pacific https://astrosociety.org/

Gregory L. Robinson, JWST Program Director, gives a virtual talk on the engineering behind Webb. "Stability is critical for the James Webb [Space Telescope] when you’re peering out into space. Just like taking a picture with a camera, steady is important. And this is as steady as it gets.”

In this episode of The Night Sky Darrel Heath explains all the wonderful objects the James Webb Telescope will be able to see in our miraculous universe. The Night Sky is produced by UALRTV on the campus of UA Little Rock.

The James Webb space telescope just took another step toward its highly anticipated 2021 launch. That long-awaited liftoff is scheduled to occur on Oct. 31, 2021, atop an Ariane V rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. James Webb's Gold Mirror Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUjCbfmW18 Support us on Patreon and help Cosmoknowledge become the number one destination for science: https://www.patreon.com/cosmoknowledge SUBSCRIBE ► https://goo.gl/PLLFPz ---- Website ► https://cosmoknowledge.com/ TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@cosmoknowledge Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/itscosmoknowledge Facebook ► https://facebook.com/cosmoknowledgee Edited by: Ardit Bicaj Narrated by: Russell Archey https://www.ravonmedia.com/ Graphics: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Music: A Hoax - Mary Riddle Clearer Views - From Now On Thank you to our Patrons: DonPig Joe Chappell xX-FLuKE-Xx - Cosmoknowledge brings news from space. We love you, explorers!

In this episode: We are in one of deepest solar mimina ever recorded; the JWST has been all folded up during testing for launch; new theories about what could be in the outer solar system besides Planet 9; and a really cool video of Hayabusa2 probe bouncing off the asteroid Ryugu. #LiveAstronomy #DeepAstronomy #SpaceFanNews Stories: https://spaceweather.com/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/first-look-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-fully-stowed https://www.popsci.com/story/space/planet-nine-not-even-a-planet/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/incredible-video-shows-hayabusa2-pogo-bouncing-off-asteroid/ Join our Chat on Discord here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Watch Tony's Twitch Tuesdays on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/DeepAstronomy

This video shows how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to fold to a much smaller size in order to fit inside the Ariane V rocket for launch to space. The largest, most complex space observatory ever built, must fold itself to fit within a 17.8-foot (5.4-meter) payload fairing, and survive the rigors of a rocket ride to orbit. After liftoff, the entire observatory will unfold in a carefully choreographed series of steps before beginning to make groundbreaking observations of the cosmos. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/first-look-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-fully-stowed Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

In 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will join the Hubble Telescope in the sky. Watch and discover the distinct features that make these missions good partners in science, working together to answer fundamental questions about the cosmos. Credit: NASA, STScI/L. Hustak.

NASA's James Webb Space Telecopes were unfolded into their final configuration in a test conducted at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Full Story: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-mirror-deploy-video.html Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Performed in early March, this most recent test involved commanding the spacecraft’s internal systems to fully extend, and latch Webb’s iconic 21 feet 4 inch (6.5 meter) primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-full-mirror-deployment-a-success Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Producer Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Videographer Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Video Editor Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Videographer Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13498 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

This time-lapse video reveals NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now a fully assembled observatory, and is accomplishing large scale deployments and movements that it will perform while in space. In 2019, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electrical assembly of the world's largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb's two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electrical interfaces have been connected. Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield, which is designed to protect the observatory's mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun. Ensuring mission success for an observatory of this scale and complexity is a challenging endeavor. All of the telescope's major components have been tested individually through simulated environments they would encounter during launch, and while orbiting a million miles away from earth. Now that Webb is fully assembled, it must meet rigorous observatory-level standards. The complete spacecraft reacts and performs differently to testing environments than when its components are tested individually. The 1:00 minute video was created by NASA's videographers and filmed over a period of time at Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California. Following Webb's successful sunshield deployment and tensioning test, members have nearly finished the long process of perfectly folding the sunshield back into its stowed position for flight, which occupies a much smaller space than when it is fully deployed. Then, the observatory will be subject to comprehensive electrical tests and one more set of mechanical tests that emulate the launch acoustic and vibration environment, followed by one final deployment and stowing cycle on the ground, before its flight into space. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Videographer Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Video Editor Song: Everlasting Force, copyright, 2015, Atomsphere Music Ltd [PRS]

Astro Coffee Hangouts have a new format! Astro Coffee will now be streamed every Thursday at 3pm regardless of whether we can schedule a guest or not. On the off-weeks where no guest is available, Tony will go over several topics of current interest in astronomy and facilitate a discussion. If you'd like to join in with your audio, then go on the Discord Public Voice Channel and "call in" with a question or comment. Here are the links to today's stories: GAO Report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/704078.pdf What's up with Betelguese? https://earthsky.org/space/betelgeuse-dimming-late-2019-early-2020-supernova Starlink: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/spacex-starlink-astronomy/606169/ https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2019/12/aas-works-mitigate-impact-satellite-constellations-ground-based-observing Discord Voice Channel here: https://discord.gg/Un68Qam Songs played: Mario Ayuda feat. Mia Mormino - Nightmare [Concordia Recordings] https://youtu.be/ID2Q7BoyBaA Helucze - Run Away [Concordia Recordings] https://youtu.be/J7sejKogDUc #AstroCoffee #LiveAstronomy Join our Chat on Discord here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Watch Tony's Twitch Tuesdays on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/DeepAstronomy

This year marks the ninth year that I started posting this news series. It all started with the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 2011 and continues to this day. In this episode, at a town hall held on the first day of AAS meeting, NASA program managers and scientists express confidence that the James Webb Space Telescope will launch as currently scheduled in March 2021. Also, I got more feedback from my JWST reporting, this time from the Public Affairs Office at NASA. #JWST #SpaceFanNews #AAS235 Watch Last 2 JWST Videos Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeW37uKip1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzp8tLiCCc Get Mova Globe Here: http://bit.ly/deepastronMOVAGlobes Read More Here: https://spacenews.com/jwst-remains-on-schedule-for-march-2021-launch/ https://spacenews.com/jwst-schedule-margin-shrinks/ Join our Chat on Discord here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/

Please check out the wonderful Mova Globes Here: http://bit.ly/deepastronMOVAGlobes I have some further comments about some SFN feedback I got on my last JWST Video and in addition to that, it looks like we finally have some telescopes operating on the far side of the Moon. #JWST #NASAJWST #LunarFarSide Join our Chat on Discord here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/

In this week's questions show, I tackle all the questions about James Webb generated by the videos we did this week. Can it be refueled? How can it see the entire sky? Is the delay a blessing? And more... 00:30 How will JWST run out of propellant? 03:12 Are there spacecraft that could service JWST? 05:00 Can JWST only see half the sky? 08:21 Is the delay a blessing in disguise? 10:58 Why not construct it in Low Earth Orbit? 13:09 Could we build a copy? 14:29 Could JWST use gravitational lensing? 15:55 Will JWST image black holes? 17:52 Is the telescope an antique? 18:49 Should we look or explore? 20:52 Could it find vegetation? 22:00 Is James Webb already a failure? Want to be part of the questions show? Ask a short question on any video on my channel. I gather a bunch up each week, and answer them here. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

In October 2019, technicians and engineers successfully performed a critical test on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by fully deploying and properly tensioning each of its five uniquely sized sunshield layers, putting them into the same positions they will have in space. To observe distant parts of the universe humans have never seen before, the Webb observatory is equipped with an arsenal of revolutionary technologies, making it the most sophisticated and complex space science telescope ever created. Among the most challenging of these technologies is the five-layer sunshield, designed to protect the observatory's mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun. Due to the telescope’s size, shape and thermal performance requirements, the sunshield must be both big and complex. As if that’s not challenging enough, it also must be very lightweight, fit inside a standard 5-meter (16-foot) diameter rocket fairing, survive the perils of launch, and accurately deploy into its required shape, with only a single chance to get it right. Following Webb’s successful sunshield test within Northrop Grumman’s Redondo Beach, California facility, team members have begun the long process of perfectly folding the sunshield back into its stowed configuration for flight, which occupies a drastically smaller volume than when it is fully deployed. Webb will be the world's premier space science observatory. It will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency), and the Canadian Space Agency. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-clears-critical-sunshield-deployment-testing This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13354 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michael Starobin (KBRwyle): Lead Editor Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Videographer Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Michael Starobin (KBRwyle): Producer Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Videographer Michael Starobin (KBRwyle): Videographer Michael Starobin (KBRwyle): Writer Follow NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: · Instagram http: https://www.instagram.com/nasawebb/ · Twitter http: https://twitter.com/NASAWebb · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbtelescope/ · Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/

Today I'll be joined by Paul Geithner, the Deputy Project Manager for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. You've had questions about this mission. Well... now's your chance to get them answered directly from the source. Paul started working with NASA in 1991 on the Hubble Space Telescope, shifting over to James Webb. In 2011, he became the Deputy Project Manager, Technical for James Webb. Learn more here: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/meetTheTeam/people/geithner.html Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected]

On March 30, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will blast off from the European Space Agency’s European spaceport in Kourou, French Giana on board an Ariane 5 rocket. It’ll fly to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, a relatively stable spot in space that keeps the glare from the Sun, Earth, and Moon all in a tiny spot in the sky. Then, it’ll unfurl its tennis court-sized sunshade, fold out its gigantic 6.5-meter mirror, and peer out into the distant cosmos. Over the course of the next 10 years, this infrared observatory will help astronomers learn about the earliest moments of the Universe, directly observe the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars, and peer at newly forming stars and planets. And if you listened to the words I just said with equal parts terror and skepticism, I don’t blame you. James Webb’s path to space has been long and tortuous. And the risks that the mission still faces are very real. Hopefully, the science will be worth it. Hopefully, nothing else goes wrong from now until deployment. So today, I want to do a deep dive into James Webb. To talk about the history of the mission, why it exists, how the development went, and where it stands today. I’ll warn you though, the length of this video is going to go way over budget. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about-jwst/history https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/2017/highlights-of-hubble-s-exploration-of-the-universe http://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/hst/documentation/_documents/NextGenerationSpaceTelescope.pdf https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/whoIsJamesWebb.html http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about-jwst/history/design-reference-mission-drm https://archive.ph/20120805155712/http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/news/2003/nasa-announces-contract https://www.nature.com/articles/4671028a http://www.icc.dur.ac.uk/~tt/Lectures/Galaxies/Images/Infrared/Regions/irregions.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/sunshield.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/index.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/nircam.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/fgs.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/miri.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubble.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqScientists.html https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-completes-webb-telescope-review https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-been-assembled-for-the-first-time

This video have been updated. A new version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdTO_g378fI

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Join experts as we discuss the most complex telescope ever created by humans – the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb will be like a powerful time machine with infrared vision that will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see some of the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.